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Page 10 - The Comuneros of the present day, are the Protestants of Masonry. Owing to the abuses which they saw in its proceedings, they detached themselves from its grasp after the revolution of 1820, when their own society was formed.

Page 7 - July, due in a great measure to their vigilance and valour, they had acquired the right of selecting a ministry of their own choice ; yet such was their generosity and anxiety to avoid the charge of ambition, that they left it to their rivals. But this courtesy was not met in a similar spirit.